382. Mayuram

Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam held the seat; the winning margin widened from 14.2% to 17.2%.

• Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 3.2% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
• New challengerNCO (NCO) finished second with 36.6% — it did not contest here in 1967.
• Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 90.4% between them, down from 100.0% — the field split more ways.
• TurnoutTurnout fell 2.2% to 76.4%.

Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.